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Evidence That the WASP and Hip-Hop Worlds are Colliding

From right: Tory Burch and LL Cool J at a Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center event, on May 13, 2009; Lyor Cohen and Burch at New Yorkers for Children, on September 22, 2009; Ne-Yo at New Yorkers for Children, on September 22, 2009; Burch and Kanye West at the designer's Fall 2009 presentation on February 18, 2009. Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com.

Who and what were up and down last night and why.

↑ Single Ladies: Last night's New Yorkers for Children gala was the highlight of the fall social calendar so far, and eligible bachelors had their hands full as the newly single Tinsley Mortimer and Katie Lee (seemingly unperturbed by Billy Joel's new babe) made the rounds.

↑ The Glitterati in the Front Row: London Fashion Week is typically seen as the little engine that could, but it held its own with Paris and New York yesterday when Christopher Bailey's Burberry show drew luminaries such as Liv Tyler, Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma Watson, Mary-Kate Olsen and Freida Pinto.An Early Halloween: The Humane Society's benefit in West Hollywood might have been for a good cause, but did Ginnifer Goodwin really have to wear an animal print-looking dress? It wasn't a costume party!

↑ An Unlikely Romance: The pairing of Warner Music Group's Lyor Cohen and Tory Burch seems to have brought the worlds of WASP and hip-hop improbably close. First Kanye and LL Cool J turned up at TB's fashion show last year. Then Burch warmly greeted LL Cool J at a Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center event in May. And we spotted little Tory getting down at Jay-Z's concert this month. But the most fantastic of all was last night's New Yorkers for Children performance by Ne-Yo, who convinced the staid attendees to brandish glowsticks. Upper East Siders dazzled by glowsticks? Well we never!

↑ Italian Glamour: While many fashionistas have their gaze fixed on London, a glamorous group turned their national pride elsewhere last night for a Vanity Fair bash to celebrate Tod's new volume Italian Touch.Julianne Moore, Brooke Shields, Hilary Rhoda and Emanuele Della Valle all toasted to the book—and the shoes.